Al Gore

Chronology of Coverage

Mar. 17, 2015

Environmental activist and former Vice Pres Al Gore, who has spent years warning of dangers of global warming, has increasingly turned his attention to more optimistic pursuits of renewable energy and green investment; Gore has seen his views, particularly regarding potential financial success of green energy, increasingly adopted by business community. MORE

Aug. 16, 2014

Former Vice Pres Al Gore files lawsuit against Al Jazeera, accusing media group of fraud and breach of contract in its $500 million purchase of Current TV; case centers on Al Jazeera's refusal to turn over money remaining in escrow account and still owed to Current TV's selling shareholders, essentially giving it discount on purchase price. MORE

Feb. 10, 2013

Michael Lind reviews book The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change by Al Gore. MORE

Jan. 24, 2013

Michiko Kakutani reviews book The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change by Al Gore. MORE

Dec. 7, 2012

New York City Mayor Michael R Bloomberg, with former Vice Pres Al Gore in attendance, pledges to aggressively pursue rebuilding city's damaged waterfront in wake of Hurricane Sandy, but warns no city can ever be protected fully; speech is Bloomberg's first major address on what city should do to prepare for future storms. MORE

Oct. 19, 2012

David Brooks Op-Ed column chronicles the rise and fall of public and political interest in green technology, as evinced by issue not being focused on in presidential campaign; attributes much of the blame for wane in enthusiasm for renewable energy to fact that Democrats, including Al Gore, who made it partisan issue, and an Obama administration program that effectively made government overreach in its support of such technologies. MORE

Aug. 26, 2012

Al Gore, his wife Tipper, and their children are all pursuing their own career paths, despite assumptions in the past that the Gore name would persist in politics; none of the Gore children, raised in the hothouse of Washington, want any involvement in politics. MORE

National Desk

For years -- since college, anyway -- Al Gore had been telling friends that the very last thing he would ever do with his life was go into politics. That was fine for his father, he would say, but not for him. When he changed his mind, though, while he was in his second year of law school and working evenings at The Nashville Tennesseean, he kept it to himself.

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National Desk

When he announced last summer that he would not run for President this year, Senator Al Gore of Tennessee said he had too many family responsibilities. But Mr. Gore left no doubt about his ultimate ambition. "I would like to be President," he said.

The dispute centers on Al Jazeera’s refusal to turn over “tens of millions of dollars” remaining in an escrow account and still owed to the selling shareholders of Current TV, according to the lawyer representing Mr. Gore.